Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

A curlicue of hope for cursive writing Robert Harbison/The Christian Science Monitor/File A fourth grader at a Los Angeles charter school practices cursive in 1998.

Read: Don’t write off cursive Yet the decline in cursive seems inevitable. Writing is, after all, a technology, and most technologies are sooner or later surpassed and replaced.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Based on my ability to write in cursive, I may be older than some of you. And some of you might not even know what cursive is or how it’s different from the art form calligraphy. (I have never ...

Teaching of cursive writing returns after falling to the wayside amid revised learning standards and emphasis on keyboarding. Backers say it promotes learning. Jan. 8, 2024 ...

I certainly hope not because I’ve written about how important that is to children’s well-being. I think cursive is an important skill, but should it be mandatory in today’s technological age?

Historically, cursive writing was a necessary skill. The ability to write quickly and legibly was essential for notetaking, personal correspondence, and even completing standardized forms.

I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted to teaching students about the content of their writing rather than its physical form.

A bill for it to be taught in schools heads to the state Senate after passing last week in the House by a 195-8 margin.